Showing posts with label sudbury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sudbury. Show all posts
Sunday, 24 August 2025

Charting CMA Population Growth in Canada

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  The news that the Greater Sudbury CMA is poised to reach 200,000 people much sooner rather than later highlights how Can...
Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Housing Starts: Sudbury and Thunder Bay

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Housing availability and affordability remain amongst the most pressing issues in current public policy and the north's major urban cent...
Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Thunder Bay and Sudbury: A Tale of Two Economies

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  The Conference Board of Canada has issued its March 2023 Metropolitan outlooks for Thunder Bay and Greater Sudbury and t...
Thursday, 13 January 2022

2021 Census Updates Out: Since 2016, Sudbury Up 2.2 Percent, Thunder Bay Up 0.3 Percent

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A very quick post. So, the 2021 census population numbers are finally out from Statistics Canada along with updates for the entire 2001 to 2...
Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Crime Statistics Update 2018: Thunder Bay Crime Rate Down 6 Percent

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The Police-reported crime statistics for 2018 from Statistics Canada are out.   The police reported crime statistics provide both the cri...
Sunday, 10 March 2019

Some Recent Posts, Activities and Other Musings

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Along with Northern Economist, I also contribute to two other blogs - the Fraser Institute and Worthwhile Canadian Initiative .  I try to p...
Monday, 27 August 2018

Northern Ontario Economic Forecasts: Conference Board Forecasts Slower Growth for Thunder Bay and Sudbury

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The Conference Board of Canada recently put out its Summer 2018 Metropolitan Outlooks for Thunder Bay and Greater Sudbury.   Greater Sudbu...
Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Renting in Northern Ontario-You Are Richer Than You Think

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When it comes to housing markets, what gets the most attention is the affordability of single detached homes particularly in large urban c...
Thursday, 15 February 2018

Population Growth Results: Thunder Bay and Sudbury at the Bottom

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Statistics Canada has released its recent sub-provincial population estimates for 2016/17 and the results find that population is ...
Thursday, 25 January 2018

Economics News Around the North: January 25th Edition

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Here are the economic news stories that have caught my interest over the last little while in northern Ontario.  The start of the new year h...
Sunday, 14 January 2018

Policing Resources and Costs in Northern Ontario: A Brief Municipal Comparison

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Municipal budget season is upon us and expenditures on protection – police and fire – are some of the most important areas in which...
Friday, 17 November 2017

Why Are Northern Ontarians So Happy?

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I recently came across a Statistics Canada Report from 2015 on life satisfaction across Census Metropolitan areas and economic regi...
Friday, 17 March 2017

Fire Services in the North: The Case of Sudbury

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Sudbury is in a bit of a tizzy over proposed changes to its fire and paramedic services.   The proposed plan will see nine of t...
Friday, 20 January 2017

Economic News Around the North: January 20th, Edition

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Here is a listing of some stories around northern Ontario over the last few days of economic significance for the region. Congratul...